Yesterday: Still catching up on backlog of emails. Summarized some of the directions suggested by other 3d animated articulated research. Not much beyond a need for speed up and developing a streaming approach. The research group of Structure and Motion at the Royal Veterinary College may offer a variety of examples for generic model-based reconstruction.

Today: OpenCV was still attempting to build on my school machine after starting the installation Monday. Today will be spent working on getting it running on my laptop, or switching gears and starting from scratch to build the synthetic 3D examples. Additionally, outline exactly what synthetic 3D examples will need to be constructed and justification for why. Read more...

Yesterday: (Thursday) Successfully presented my proposed research and passed the candidacy examination. Issues included the need for real-world examples for the application of the research. This would improve the demonstration of the work's capacity for impact within the research community. Wrote notes on a possible project direction, relating to defining a process of attempting interactive frame rates, while reconstructing the dynamic scene (eg. when to threshold, when to downsample, how much to send off for parallelization, density cut off for model creation, etc). One particularly good example is for 3D reconstruction and analysis of customized mechanical systems such as found in any manufacturing plant.

Today: Catch up on backlog of emails. Create list of motivations and future work of other animated articulated research. Attempt to get PCL and OpenCV working on the school machine so I can work within the larger environment. This is a precursor to generating synthetic 3D examples for motion-based segmentation. Read more...

Time for a Rest.
Photo Credit: John Paczkowski, Alberta Parks Yesterday: Wrapped up final touches on papers prior to candidacy. Sent off PDF to C. Jacob to follow along during presentation. Candidacy was basically okay, though a discussion was kickstarted surrounding application-based versus computation-based contribution. I wonder whether a process-based contribution would be worthwhile. Need to generate good biological examples - that can be accomplished within the phd time frame - to demonstrate the benefit of not using apriori-model.

Today: Collate feedback from candidacy. Read more...

Yesterday: Populated most of the papers slides with content. Mainly one or two points, with a few visuals or links to videos. Re-worked the presentation flow so that it transitions better between the high and low level directions of the work. Set up professional Skype contact. Brief meeting with Faramarz. Had a practise set-up in the candidacy room, to make sure videos, etc. were working.

Today: Finish final slides for candidacy. Send off pdf to Christian Jacob and confirm Skype connection works. Give candidacy presentation, taking notes on important points. Create list of motivations and future work of other animated articulated research. Read more...

Yesterday: Updated a few of the paper slides with content. I'll have to re-work how much each slide will contain and how in-depth the notes will be if I'm to keep them around. Minor edits on main presentation.

Today: Wrap up populating papers slides from proposal, paper and reading list, definitions, fundamental math, approach details (validating test suites and case study examples) with content, updating latex notes en-route. Wrap up other minor updates. Adjust transition between high and low level by connected better with the wishlist. Brief meeting with Faramarz. Check out presentation in the meeting room. Work out how Skype with examiner will work.

Future Todos: Create list of motivations and future work of other animated articulated research. Read more...

Yesterday: (Friday) Laid out reading list papers within the presentation.

Today: Populate papers slides from proposal, paper and reading list, definitions, fundamental math, approach details (validating test suites and case study examples) with content, updating latex notes en-route. Wrap up other minor updates. Adjust transition between high and low level by connected better with the wishlist.

Future Todos: Create list of motivations and future work of other animated articulated research. Read more...

Yesterday: You can link to bookmarks, pages, sections within a pdf (stackoverflow) by appending #page=number or #nameddest=sectionlabel. Unsure if this works within the FreeMind program. Briefly looked into how to add links via latex, but have put aside. Reworked presentation and added comments to illustrate: not skinning, ordered RGB-DN(ormals) as input, de-emphasize Chang's work, and working in real not projected space. A couple hours spent on rebuilding full graph illustration.

Today: Continuing to add slides for: papers from proposal, paper and reading list, definitions, fundamental math, approach details (validating test suites and case study examples); and other minor updates. For papers, continue creating slide per-item, filling them in as I go along (update latex paper notes as well). Adjust transition between high and low level by connected better with the wishlist.

Future Todos: Create list of motivations and future work of other animated articulated research.

Roadblocks: Watch how much time is spent on unrelated projects. Read more...

Yesterday: From Faramarz's meeting, I've installed Free Mind and have setup the Dropbox folder within my grad directory to increase likelihood of use. Trying to work out how not to duplicate notes. Created mind map project and fleshed out slightly. Within presentation, laid out sections for related work papers, and other elements. Time to flesh it out - keeping in mind ideal goal vs. phd project.

Today: Add slides relating to topics, fundamental mathematical techniques and papers from proposal, paper and reading list - start with a slide per-item, and fill it in as I go along (update latex paper notes as well). Meet with Faramarz to gain his feedback.

Future Todos: Create list of motivations and future work of other animated articulated research. Read more...

Yesterday: Incorporated figures, stats and graphs from single author paper, as well as visualizations of ICP/NDT usage for registration. Updated the timeline from the proposal. Presented and gained valuable feedback and comments from the group - large project, know all the details along the way, etc. Talked with Ali afterwards, which helped recognize Ideal Wishlist vs. Project Wishlist. Then describe clearly how to attain this wishlist. Updated slides accordingly.

Today: Add slides relating to topics, fundamental mathematical techniques and papers from proposal, paper and reading list - start with a slide per-item, and fill it in as I go along (update latex paper notes as well). Meet with Faramarz to gain his feedback.

Future Todos: Create list of motivations and future work of other animated articulated research. Read more...

Yesterday: Marginal updates to the presentation. I'm attempting to work out how to present the main contributions, current results (negligible - but related to what I've accomplished with the single author paper) and future work and timeline.

Today: Incorporate figures, stats and graphs from single author paper, as well as visualizations of ICP/NDT usage for registration. For the timeline discuss how we've picked up a copy of Chang's codebase, and plan to explore how it works for future improvements. Wrap up presentation conclusion, work left to do, and timeline adjusted from the proposal. I have the dry-run of my presentation today. The slides relating to topics, mathematical techniques and papers from proposal and paper will have to be added later in the afternoon and week.

Future Todos: Create list of motivations and future work of other animated articulated research. Start note-taking on reading list and fundamental mathematical concepts. Read more...